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[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago) (1 children)

This is why it's important to have tests that assert a system's failure modes too.

shouldFitTriangleInTriangleHole()

shouldNotFitTriangleInAnyOtherHoles()

Bonus points for just parameterizing it.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 hours ago

Stop! I can only get so... dry retch.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 hours ago

Plausible to within 1/5 of a plausibility unit.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 hours ago

But why 3% why not 2% or 4%, I assume 5% is right out.

... Want t, I'm trying to reason about something reason forsake.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 13 hours ago

Welcome to tabloid news.

Please check your facts at the door.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 13 hours ago (2 children)

Tremendous stench. Everybody knows. The biggest stench. No one has stench as big.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 13 hours ago

They are.

His personality is "stuff" and you are smelling "stuff".

[–] [email protected] 12 points 16 hours ago

Thanks for writing that out. I'd never quite groked why it (and similar wording) sounded wrong: reducing a person to an adjective.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 20 hours ago (2 children)

the erroneous claim that "the active forces in the field against the King's tyranny never amounted to more than 3% of the colonists" during the American Revolution.

What.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 20 hours ago

"This jacket looks ridiculous".

Guy walking in with hat: "Uhh...."

[–] [email protected] 38 points 22 hours ago (2 children)

Oh sh__, my gun went off

You do not point a gun at something you do not want to kill.

Pointing a gun is a deliberate action which requires intent.

This was attempted murder.

 

Yes. That's the point.

 

I don’t agree with throwing money away on a service I am not receiving.

Ah, yes. That argument. She's fine with other people paying for her superannuation though.

Alternative headline: Pensioner Benefits Whole Life from Unsustainably Low Rates

A special fuck you to these kinds of people.

 

Remember when we were told that privatisation of power generation would lower prices?

 

This is a somewhat challenging read but important enough a topic to read with an open mind.

IMHO The author should have explained what traditionally happened to child abusers: probably ostracized from the hāpu or just outright killed (utu).

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